The new material in the fifth edition of this reference guide was added for various reasons:
- To respond to requests from users of previous editions
- To keep pace with new challenges writers encounter (such as searching online for information for research papers, designing documents for more effective visual literacy, and writing public document)
- To include more information writers need (such as updated guidelines for citing eletronic sources, other citation formats, evaluation of sources, writing about literature, and additional Internet resources)
1. Purposes and Audiences
2. Writing Processes and Strategies
3. Paragraphs
4. Argument
5. Writing with Computers
6. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
7. Subject-Verb Agreement
8. Sentence Fragments
9. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
10. Parallel Constructions
,etc.